ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 23 AUGUST 2012 Perth’s Devour the Martyr sprang up out of nowhere in 2011 with a scorching debut EP and before long were out on the national highways touring…
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DEAD LETTER CIRCUS: Let the Carnival Begin
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 27 NOVEMBER 2012 Having completed their apprenticeship via extensive touring throughout Australia, Brisbane’s Dead Letter Circus blew the proverbial doors open with chart-topping 2010 debut LP This is the Warning….
DEAD IN A SECOND: The End of Fashion
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 24 JUNE 2012 Dead in a Second is the new project from Thousand Needles in Red guitarist and songwriter Tristan “Trizo” Bouillaut. The axeman briefly talked to Loud about their new…
4ARM: Distant Early Warning
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 29 JANUARY 2012 Melbourne thrashers 4ARM have done the hard yards to get to the point they’re at today. Formed almost seven years ago, during the past couple of…
BACKTRACKIN’: Escape – Adelaide’s Forgotten Metal Heroes
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 23 OCTOBER 2013 Canberra-based film maker Michael Kraaz has been developing a documentary on one of Australia’s greatest unrecorded metal bands. Escape: The Great Unsigned is the story of Gawler’s most legendary…
ASTRIAAL: Return of the Dark
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 28 MAY 2012 Brisbane black metal battalion Astriaal have been silent since making some brief appearances in early 2011. As winter settles over the country, the band returns to the…
AVERSIONS CROWN: Dare to be Different
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 29 AUGUST 2012 Eight-string guitar-favouring Brisbane deathcore bruisers Aversions Crown aim to craft a more technical slant on what has been a much-criticised genre. Having released their debut album Servitude last year,…
BACKTRACKIN’: Taramis – Melbourne’s Early Metal Titans
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 17 OCTOBER 2010 Taramis were one of the very early contenders on the Australian metal scene in the 1980s, and just like other early local groups like Nothing Sacred, Taipan…
GAY PARIS: Gritty, Edgy Horror
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 6 MAY 2011 With a sound comparable to Clutch teaming up with Chrome Division and then roping in Tom Waits for a few songs, the unlikely-named Gay Paris are a…
BURIED IN VERONA: Sharing the Fever
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 18 OCTOBER 2010 Sydney metalcore crew Buried In Verona’s 2008 debut album Circle The Dead was a heavy, well-produced, yet ultimately generic and highly dispensable first-up effort. Two years on, the…